Enslaved Persons Named: Big Isaac, Harry, Phoebe, Ben, Matilda, Bella and her child Braveboy, Clarissa, Cupid, Joe, Levy [or Lewy], Lucy, Jim, Peter, Jenny, Rhoda, Bess, Lindy, Bella, Flora
On July 4, 1826, James Nephew, planter of McIntosh County, transferred to Charles West and Roswell King Jr., both also of McIntosh County, to be put into trust for his daughter Catharine M. King, the wife of Barrington King, “all that certain tract, plantation, piece and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Liberty, containing nineteeen hundred and fifty acres, more or less, being the southern part of the tract of land purchased by the said James Nephew from Thomas Young, and known as the Southhampton [or South Hampton] tract or plantation, which said Southhampton tract or plantation has such shape, form and marks as appears in the plan thereof hereto annexed: the southern part of which said Southhampton tract or plantation hereby conveyed, and intended to e conveyed, is bounded on the West by the Sunbury road, on the North by a line running along the center of the North canal, and the most Eastwardly dam, to the point where the Boyne Creek intersects said dam, usually known as the old lower flood gate, and by the Boyne Creek, so as to take in the whole of the old rice fields, and on all other sides by the lines in the annexed plan or representation of the Southhampton tract or planatation laid down, that is to say, the outer lines: Together with all and singular the houses, out-houses, edifices, buildings, yards, gardens, ways, watercourses, hereditaments, rights, members and appurtenances to the plantation tract, piece and parcel of land belonging…”
James Nephew also transferred to Charles West and Roswell King Jr for the same purpose “all those negro or other slaves, named Big Isaac, Harry, Phoebe, Ben, Matilda, Bella and her child Braveboy, Clarissa, Cupid, Joe, Levy [or Lewy], Lucy, Jim, Peter, Jenny, Rhoda, Bess, Lindy, Bella, Flora, with the future issue and increase of the female slaves.”
The trust was also to benefit Barrington and Catharine King’s children, Charles Barrington King and William Nephew King.
Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 2, 1827.
Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book I, 1822-1831, p. 207-8. Image #405-6 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSB6-K?i=404&cat=292358)